Yom Kippur for All

by Tom Brennan,

Yom Kippur will begin Tuesday at sunset and end Wednesday at sunset. This is the holiest day of the year. It is the day when Jews and Torah following Christians fast and consider where they have left God’s Presence. In these days of unrest, wars and rumors of wars, Blood Moons and many Scriptural warnings it is good to look inwards and then upwards. Our lives are filled with news, work, chores, rushed meals and endless cups of coffee. The world places a burden on us and we grudgingly accept it as a price of passage. But God has another way.

He is merciful and meets us in His Tabernacle. The Tabernacle is a tent which travels ahead of us; its marker is a huge cloud by day and a pillar and whirlwind of fire by night. He leads us ahead and only a fool will not follow.

All the self-help books, psychotherapy, medications and group sessions in the world cannot take away what Yom Kippur can do. A day of truth, a day of confession, a day where we are confronted with our failings and then receive mercy.

Coming soon is Sukkot. The Israelites were instructed to leave their homes and villages and dwell once again in the tents of their ancestors. They were to surround themselves with natural things, not man-made. They were to once again look up at the stars, the stars which were as numerous as Abraham’s descendants and those grafted in.

Yom Kippur is holy, set apart; a day commanded by God to come to Him in confession and receive mercy and renew our hope and trust. Yom Kippur is a day for all.

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